Glossary

Popular Glossary Terms

• design for manufacture

  a term from industrial design that emphasizes the importance of maki…

• speech act

  a view of language that treats communication as a series of actions in…

• text entry box

  a box into which text can be typed, as opposed to areas in which text is s…

• lurking

  participating in an electronic conference (chat, mailing list, bul…

• data-centered interface

  a user interface designed to support users editing object and docume…

• focus ring

  a ring surrounding a default button in a dialog box, used to hilite the…

• halo effect

  (graphics) the glow that appears around an antialiased image when it…

• feature inspection

  a usability inspection technique that identifies the tasks that a us…